Wednesday, January 5, 2011

A Cautionary Tweet

Recently sent to me, this picture posted by Russell Brand on his Twitter page shows his wife, Katy Perry, waking up without a scrap of make-up. As you can see below, this is not Ms. Perry usual look. Apparently, she was less than pleased with the posting, as it was quickly deleted from Russell's Twitter page. But as most of us hopefully know, the internet is an unforgiving environment. Once posted, never forgotten.

To be fair, I wouldn't look so hot if my other half slapped a flash in my mush at stupid o clock in the morning, but I've been told I look lovely when I've got a bit of lippy on. I reckon Katy will probably let Brand off. She must have read My Booky Wook to see what she was letting herself in for.

Ru Paul once said everyone is in drag. We all put on our "face" in the morning and head off into the world. Why do we expect her to be different? Cindy Sherman clued into this years ago: the public fraud we all put on everyday. The role playing...etc. Fertile ground for photographic inquiry, no?

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